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...ideas in the drama are plainly paranoid but they are also vivid, and in this competent translation and production they make for vivid theater of ideas. But the drama is diminished at every point to the petty scale of Sartre's vision of reality. It is true enough, even in a religious sense, that man is his life and nothing else, but it is also true that there are more things in man's life than are dreamt of in Sartre's philosophy...
...tension in Woody's life is finally between personal sacrifice and personal gratification; a divorce and an affair; a business coup and a business risk. By an unintended irony the play emphasizes the financial index of success. Presisely because Howard Da Silva (Woody's father) is the most vivid human being on stage, and because the success of The Business is vital to him, the audience finds itself rooting very hard for the commercial vindication of Miss Julie Lingerie...
...sense of life that Woody talks about when he reaches 40 disappears from our sight...too bad. One wife or another is not made to seem very important, actually. By an irony the play emphasizes the financial index of success: precisely because Howard Da Silva is the most vivid human being we see, and because the success of the Business is vital to him, the audience finds itself rooting very hard for the commercial vindication of Miss Julie Lingerie, Inc., or whatever it was called...
Billy Budd. Herman Melville's didactic tale has been transformed into a vivid, frightening, deeply affecting film, and for this the credit belongs principally to Britain's Peter Ustinov, who directed the picture, helped write the script, and plays one of the leading roles...
...comeback victory over Brown last week was a vivid demonstration of the team's power. Brown took an early two goal lead in the first quarter, but the Yardlings pulled themselves together and came up with four tallies. Brown tried to get back in the game with a late score, but were unable to overcome the Crimson margin...